UN DRIP

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Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from
discrimination of any kind,

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Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2 and the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights,2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,3 affirm
the fundamental importance of the right to self-determination of all peoples,
by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and
freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development,

Recognizing and reaffirming that indigenous individuals are entitled without

discrimination to all human rights recognized in international law, and that indigenous
peoples possess collective rights
which are indispensable for their existence, well-being and integral
development as peoples,

Article 1
Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as
individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the
Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 4
and
international human rights law.

Article 6
Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality.

Article 8
1. Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to
forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.
2. States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress
for:
(a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their
integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their
lands, territories or resources;
(c) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of
violating or undermining any of their rights;
(d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
 (e) Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic
discrimination directed against them.
Article 9
Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous
community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the
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community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the
exercise of such a right.

Article 33
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or
membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair
the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they
live.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to
select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.

Article 44
All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male
and female indigenous individuals.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly
resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966
entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49

Article 16

Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 24

1. Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language,
religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of
protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society
and the State.

2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name.

3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly
resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989
entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49

Article 7

1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from
birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to
know and be cared for by his or her parents.

2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with
their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in
this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.

Article 8

1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her
identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without
unlawful interference.

2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or her identity,
States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-
establishing speedily his or her identity.

Article 22

1. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that a child who is seeking
refugee status or who is considered a refugee in accordance with applicable
international or domestic law and procedures shall, whether unaccompanied or
accompanied by his or her parents or by any other person, receive appropriate
protection and humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth in
the present Convention and in other international human rights or humanitarian
instruments to which the said States are Parties.

2. For this purpose, States Parties shall provide, as they consider appropriate, co-
operation in any efforts by the United Nations and other competent intergovernmental
organizations or non-governmental organizations co-operating with the United Nations
to protect and assist such a child and to trace the parents or other members of the
family of any refugee child in order to obtain information necessary for reunification
with his or her family. In cases where no parents or other members of the family can
be found, the child shall be accorded the same protection as any other child
permanently or temporarily deprived of his or her family environment for any reason ,
as set forth in the present Convention.

CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST

WOMEN

Article 9

1. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain
their nationality. They shall ensure in particular that neither marriage to an alien nor
change of nationality by the husband during marriage shall automatically change the
nationality of the wife, render her stateless or force upon her the nationality of the
husband.

2. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the
nationality of their children.